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Happy New Year!
As promised, I am giving you a tour of my new office!
Inside this video, I show you in detail how I have setup my workplace for maximum productivity. I am so excited to share with you my Video Production Studio, my work station and a few more areas inside my office that I use when I record videos.
The first few days of the new year have proven to be VERY productive for me indeed. Moving into a new office and having the right setup for my Video Production Studio has provided me the focus and clarity that I need for my business.
I am sure you will get tons of ideas on how you too could modify or improve your physical environment to take your business to a whole new level and get you the results you want.
What do you say about my new office? Please leave your comments below.
Talk soon!
Gideon Shalwick
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Inside this video I want to show you the layout and why I've got certain things in certain places; and how this is allowing me to pop out videos and content and be super productive much much more than I ever was before.
I'll be taking the camera next and show you around the room, the whole layout and why I've got everything in certain spaces.
Alright, talk to you soon!
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Here is the outside door of my office. I'm just going to walk in and take you through a quick journey or tour of the office. I'm standing right at the door. This is kind of what it looks like as you come. To my right, I've got my workstation. My work table, as you could see, is a standing desk. So there's no chair there for me to sit on or be lazy.
Over here, I've got a nice little couch if I want to get lazy or take a nap … I currently have the old Aeron chair on there but frankly, I don't actually use it that much. I might take it back home again.
Got my bookcase over here where I have all my business books stacked up. That's not even all of them. But I'm still filling them up as I go.
Just having a quick look here at my whiteboard. That's very important. This is a tremendous tool in my business. It's about 3.6 meters long… Let me just see if I stand back so you can get a bit of perspective here. Yeah, it's pretty big.
It's right next to my little standing desk here so if I move back a bit, that's where I'll be standing and doing my work during the day. It's pretty effective. I've got my computer here with my microphone that's handy there to do webinars and talk on Skype, etc.
From time to time, I'll grab my little Air laptop and do some stuff on the couch or go to the coffee shop and do some work there.
But this is sort of my work area where I spend quite a bit of time to get stuff done. Something really important that I want to show you here
(I'm just going to focus for a second. Let me just move back)… Here's my planner.
I'm not sure what it's going to look like over here. It might look a bit funny, cause it's basically a bunch of squares and lines on a whiteboard type of surface. It's just a laminated area.
This is where I plan out all my projects. It's still at the beginning of the year so I still need to plan out a few things.
Okay, so this is where I get stuff done. This is how I try and be as effective as I can be.
Let's have a look at the second part of my office now which is the Studio part.
If we walk in here… I'll give you a bit of a pan of the area. This is where I record most of my videos. As you can see over here, there are two lights here. These lights are used for lighting up the background.
And what I've got here is pretty much just a white wall. I used to have a white sheet that I used but I've found that just a non-reflective paint works quite well for getting those nice white wall effect that I have on my videos.
Now, let's move into the studio a little bit closer. Let's get into if I stand in position. So this is where I'll normally be standing when I'm recording. What you see there in front of you are two lights for lighting up the subject, which in this case will be me.
There's also a teleprompter there that you see. Behind that would normally be the camera that I'm holding right now. The camera that I'm holding right now is a Canon 60D and I'm recording on a lapel mic, a Sony lapel mic which is the URX-P2 system, I believe. So that gives me a nice sound and really clear picture quality.
Over there is a little printer which is nicely out of the way. It is a wireless printer, that means I don't have to have it on my desk to save some space.
To my left, just slightly behind me, is the one light that lights up the background. If I go back to my right is the other light lighting up the background.
So I'm kind of just standing in front of it… If I were to look at the white wall that's right behind me. There's the one light. There's my feet. I'll probably stand about in that position. There, you see the other light. I'll just turn around again. Perhaps, I'll have a plan view of this so you can see what I mean with my layout.
There's one recording place or option. This is the way I've set this up so that I can have multiple recording options.
Another option is, I guess, for me to stand at my desk and kind of look back, maybe in an angle like this and look towards the camera. Do some sort of a recording show that I'm working on the computer.
Another one is where basically I'll place the camera in pretty much this kind of position, maybe zoomed in more. Something like this. So that I'll be sitting on the chair or a couch and have the nice bookcase as the background.
So there are now three different recording scenarios that I can have here. And a fourth one… This is something that I still need to build in. It's once again on the couch (let's just zoom out a bit), but this time have a nice background.
I'm looking for a nice background that I can put here, maybe like a brick background or some sort of nature scene, or something that will look nice while I'm sitting on the couch as a background.
That's it! Back to me sitting on this chair, recording in the third position.
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So, what did you think? Do you think this is something that you can implement in your own home? Perhaps at your own office, perhaps you could set aside an area in your home or at your office where you can dedicate it to content creation; whether it's content for YouTube, content for products, content for marketing.
Think about it. If you have a dedicated space like this, how much easier it will be for you to just dominate.
Tell me what you thought about this video. Leave your comment below. I'd love to hear from you. Share this with your friends on Twitter, on Facebook. And remember to subscribe, here's the link right here, boom!
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Facebook Censors Photo After Mistaking Elbow for Breast [VIDEO]
What's the difference between an elbow and a breast? For Facebook, not much.
The social network recently removed a misleading photo of a woman in a bathtub because it mistook her elbow for a bare breast, according to "Theories of the deep understanding of things."
The Facebook page posted the photo as a way to test Facebook's terms of service, which prohibits the posting of "pornographic" content.
"FB moderators can't tell an elbow from a dangerous, filthy, uncanny and violent female breast," the page said. "No questions were asked and the post is down."
After realizing its blunder, Facebook later restored the photo. In a statement, the company told gossip blog Gawker, "We made a mistake and sent an apology to the original poster."
For more details, check out the video above. Then, tell us in the comments: How do you find Facebook's rules around posting content?

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More details about The Earthbound, in Genk's words, are after the break.
When someone joins The Earthbound (US-Dragonmaw), they're welcomed with a cry of "blu nu!" For those who were invited by friends to the guild, this is the point where they find out that we're not like other guilds.
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Biggest achievement
"I think at the moment our biggest achievement is the opening of another game branch of The Earthbound. None of the people involved in the old branch are officers in the WoW branch, and I don't know any of them from former guilds or anything. They're all transfer members who came over for fun, and now they're helping build the guild in another game and supporting the WoW guild (which, in the same week as the game's release, is drastically increasing perform in WoW's RBGs. We were able to take 2 of our recruits with under 1.5k resil into RBGs and still win 3-0 and 2-0 in flag captures). Oh, and still having raid stuff to offer."
The beginning
"The guild's beginning is quite complex, in terms of plans, timing, execution, and community, and this article won't be able to contain them. The short story that, after nearly a decade of online gaming in various games, genres, and clans/guilds, I felt that I'd experienced enough to make a sort of guild that could last and still be practical. I created a the guild structure, explicitly outlining how the guild would function so that socialization would rule while maintaining enough flexibility to make game specific rules and ranks without endangering the guild as a whole. A few friends pitied me and signed the charter on a bank char, but I found and recruited the others through personal observations and chats (largely in Wintergrasp so I could see people's performance). We started in a time that was just plain wrong for what I wanted to do, feeling like if the guild couldn't start then, it would never be able to last. However, the guild Dirty, whose GM was a close friend of my brother's, helped watch monitor recruits in WG when I was away, and the guild PK gave us a vote of confidence when we finally hit the server forums with our recruitment post. From there, members poked around our site and found out how to earn ranks and get officers in place. We were not founded by a group of friends, raiders, elite PvPers, or the remains of former guilds, but it did attract them. We've grown without spamming or offering progression, just a good time. I'm largely more of a monitor than a guild leader, since guildies seem to mainly take care of each other."
"Activities vary greatly. While I personally founded the guild for world pvp and RBGs, we've also got raiders and folks running old content for kicks, but that's just the boring stuff. We've helped revive the Dragonmaw server's Friday Night Fights event to help keep world pvp alive, thrown parties (such as a Farewell to Dalaran party the night before the shattering), and do team building pvp events, such as inter-guild 3v3v3s in the Gurabashi arena. If you BG with us, don't be surprised if you suddenly have bunny ears on. If you charge us 1 versus 10, we'll cheer at you and maybe dance until some of your friends arrive. We'll go naked in your capital city's bank once we think the guards aren't looking (though some of us still get caught with our pants down). We like to play the game in ways others just might not get, while still jumping through the hoops that devs set up each patch."
Future plans
"Our plans for the future are to keep going! Our server's having trouble with world pvp again after the alliance we were coordinating with chose to play another game, so we're working on something new to hopefully get people into World PvP again. Our raid and RBG teams are doing much better (RBGs team has brought undergeared players and shut out the other team in capture the flag, so skill's really doing well), but we're still on the lookout for people (not characters) that catch our interest. Finally, we've started a new guild branch in Rift on the Reclaimer server (Defiant), mainly made up of our transfer members, who still play WoW and help with RBGs. While we've seen other guilds get killed off by a new game, we're still able to raid and get RBG wins in WoW, so I think we've attracted a good amount of social, team oriented players who want to make sure this guild's around for a long time."


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CCSP recognises that families of children with differing abilities require targeted advocacy and support. Late in 2010, the decision was taken to formalise this action in a sub-committee of the CCSP. The Special Needs Working Group was formed comprising members from various dioceses and had as its aims to:
The working group has continued to meet and provide support for families of children with disabilities by disseminating relevant information and maintaining a dedicated web page. The group continues to engage at critical junctures with government policy and developments.
National Data Collection on School Students with Disability
All Australian governments have agreed to work together to implement a new annual national data collection on school students with disability. This data collection process is being phased in over a three-year period in 2013-2015. The first two years will be a transition period. This means that all schools will begin preparing for participating in the collection from 2013. In 2015, the first full national collection of data on school students with disability will take place in all Australian schools. From then on, this data collection will occur in every school every year, along with other school data collections. To find out more click here.


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BRUINS: Score three goals in first to help get past New Jersey Devils
NEWARK, N.J. >> All the Boston Bruins needed to get back into first place was eight good minutes to start the game, and eight flawless penalty kills.
Gregory Campbell scored twice in a three-goal first period, the Bruins built a four-goal lead and then held on for a 5-4 victory over the reeling New Jersey Devils on Wednesday night.
The win moved the Bruins (56 points) a point ahead of the Montreal Canadiens in the Northeast Division with nine games to play in the lockout-shortened season. It also put them back in second place in the Eastern Conference, four points behind Pittsburgh, which has played one extra game.
"It's certainly nice to be there, in first place," Bruins coach Claude Julien said after his team won for the fifth time in six games. "That was a little bit of motivation tonight. That's not to say we played a great game, but we accomplished a goal."
The Devils didn't accomplish anything in losing their eighth straight (0-4-4). They are four points out of a playoff spot with eight games to go. It's certainly not what many expected from a team that played for the Stanley Cup last season.
"You know the spot you are in," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said. "You have two choices. You roll over and die or you get up tomorrow and find a way to turn one win into six or seven or whatever it is going to take."
To return to the postseason, the Devils need to play a lot better. But so do the Bruins if they are going to make some noise in the playoffs.
This wasn't their best effort. They stopped playing for long stretches after taking a 4-0 lead early in the second period on Zdeno Chara's goal.
"The way the game started was very weird, but we capitalized on our opportunities," said Tyler Seguin, whose third-period goal was the winner. "After going up 3-0, we definitely took the foot off the gas a little bit and you saw what happened. They came back and almost stole one."
The Bruins scored three times against Martin Brodeur in the opening 8:12. Daniel Paille and Campbell capped the initial outburst with short-handed goals in a 3:21 span.
Patrik Elias, Travis Zajac, Andy Greene and Matt D'Agostini scored against Anton Khudobin (24 saves) for New Jersey, whose losing streak is its longest since 1985-86.
D'Agostini's goal got New Jersey within one with 37 seconds to play, but Boston didn't allow another shot.
The first period was the difference, a session that included the sellout crowd 17,625 booing the home team a number of times and giving Brodeur sarcastic cheers after routine saves.
Not only did the Bruins score three times early, they killed off four penalties, including an early 1:27 two-man advantage. They even had lumbering defenseman Johnny Boychuk miss a penalty shot, or it would have been three short-handed goals.
"Them taking penalties cost us the game," said Brodeur, who finished with 13 saves. "We didn't get many chances and they got a penalty shot and scored two goals. That was the big difference in the game."
Campbell put Boston ahead 70 seconds after the opening faceoff, but it was Jaromir Jagr, who did most of the work. The recently acquired 41-year-old controlled the puck between the circles despite being hounded. He eventually got a quick shot on Brodeur and Campbell pounced on the rebound, sliding it under the 40-year-old goaltender, who was making his 10th straight start.
"We're clicking a little bit more," Campbell said. "Either it's a slow start or a slow finish. Tonight it was a slow second period. We sat on our lead and got comfortable. Give them credit, they worked hard to get back into the game. The onus is on to stay with the game plan, despite the score."
The Bruins then killed off the two-man disadvantage and Boychuk got his penalty shot just seconds after coming out of the box and being hooked by Marek Zidlicky. Brodeur followed the Boston defenseman's slow-motion moves and stacked his pads to stop the shot.
It only slowed down the Bruins' momentarily.
A bad pass by forward Steve Sullivan at the point on another power play set up a 2-on-1 break for the Bruins a little less than three minutes later. Brodeur made the initial stop on Paille, but he swatted the rebound out of the air for his eighth goal.
Campbell got his fourth with a deflection of a shot from the point by Andrew Ference.
"Getting goals, getting points, it's a good feeling," Campbell said. "I try to work hard every game. I've had a few chances throughout the year. I was happy tonight they went in.
Chara made it 4-0 with a power-play goal early in the second period, but the Devils didn't give up.
Elias got them on the board with a deflection of a shot by Sullivan, and the momentum seemed to change after Devils' defenseman Anton Volchenkov elbowed Brad Marchand in the head, drawing a five-minute major and a game misconduct. It left the Devils with four defenseman because Bryce Salvador did not return after being hit in the hand on a shot by Chara earlier in the period .
Instead of putting the game away, the Bruins got lax and Zajac scored shorthanded late in the period to cut the deficit to 4-2.
Greene scored on a slap shot 5:58 into the third period to cut the lead to a goal. But Seguin scored in close off a nice pass by Paille less than two minutes later to give Bostonbreathing room.
"We battled back," Brodeur said. "... but nobody is happy about what happened today."
NOTES: Boston is 12-1-1 when leading after the first period and 17-2-1 when scoring first. ... Marchand was wobbly after the Volchenkov hit and he did not return. ... The last time the Devils gave up two short-handed goals in a game was against Atlanta in 2006. ... The Devils have not won since Ilya Kovalchuk hurt his right shoulder against the Panthers here on March 23. He hopes to return to the lineup soon. ... Bruins C Patrice Bergeron (concussion) has started skating and hopes to return soon. ... New Jersey recalled rookie goaltender Keith Kinkaid from Albany (AHL) earlier in the day because backup Johan Hedberg was sore.


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Two more senators, one from each party, announced their support for same-sex marriage on Tuesday. Their shifts appear to mark 50 votes to legalize such unions in the Senate.
Mark Kirk of Illinois joined Rob Portman of Ohio on the small list of Senate Republicans who back legalizing marriage for gay couples.
"When I climbed the Capitol steps in January," Mr. Kirk said, referring to when he returned to work after spending a year recovering from a stroke, "I promised myself that I would return to the Senate with an open mind and greater respect for others."
He continued, in a statement: "Same-sex couples should have the right to civil marriage. Our time on this earth is limited; I know that better than most. Life comes down to who you love and who loves you back — government has no place in the middle."
Senator Tom Carper, Democrat of Delaware, took to Facebook to announce his support.
"As our society has changed and evolved, so too has the public's opinion on gay marriage – and so has mine," he wrote, adding that the Golden Rule had prompted him to believe that "all Americans should be free to marry the people they love and intend to share their lives with, regardless of their sexual orientation."
More senators have been announcing their support of same-sex marriage almost daily, including Senator Bob Casey, Democrat of Pennsylvania, on Monday.


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LANSING, Mich. - Gov. Rick Snyder today signed legislation that makes it easier for eligible cities and townships to receive Economic Vitality Incentive Program (EVIP) dollars to fund employee compensation programs.
"Since we first implemented this program last year cities and townships across the state have been constantly coming up with innovative new ways to deliver services more efficiently and save taxpayers money. This change will help keep that positive momentum going," Snyder said.
The legislation also extends the deadline for compliance by a month from May 1 to June 1. To qualify, local units of government must develop a new plan for cost-savings in retirement and health care packages.
House Bill 5189, sponsored by state Rep. Amanda Price, is now Public Act 107 of 2012.
EVIP is an incentive-based grant program that replaces traditional statutory revenue sharing.
A detailed description of the bill may be found online at www.legislature.mi.gov.


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I'm probably the only person on earth who hasn't quite embraced the calendar on my phone.. I feel like I'm stuck in the dark ages because I just don't get it. It doesn't feel intuitive to me and I feel silly that it's managed to dupe me. Surely I can't be the only one?! I just prefer good old pen and paper. So, in a bid to become a little more organised (as per this post) and to keep track of playdates and appointments, I've created a free weekly planner that can be printed out, stuck on the wall and written on as things come up.
I decided to break it up into Morning, Lunch, Afternoon, and Evening (as that's just how my day seems to be segmented at the moment with Arlo) and have left the cells big so it allows for plenty of writing room. Even though I use it more as an activity calendar, you could also use it as a meal planner, or a to-do list for each day.. whatever you like, really!
Here it is in action, taped to our kitchen wall. Also note Arlo's spectacular red Chinese lantern for Chinese New Year. Best looking lantern I've ever seen.. #childprodigy #modestmum
So if you haven't really fallen in love with your digital calendar either, I hope you'll find this printable version useful :) I've made it in both A4 and Letter. Enjoy!


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A collection of scholarly works about individual liberty and free markets. A project of Liberty Fund, Inc.
In the ancient Chinese collection of poems known as the Shih King, probably edited by Confucius, there is a touching verse which laments the ravenous yellow birds in a foreign land where they are not welcomed:
Yellow birds, yellow birds! Do not crowd the tree-tops; Come not pecking our crops.— From the folk of this land We unwelcoming win; Up, let us return To our country and kin.
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The "yellow birds" who have entered a foreign land and are not welcomed by the local population because they eat the crops, the mulberries, the maize, and the corn. The reason the birds entered this other country so far from their families and kin is not made clear but it could be a reference to foreign troops who invade another country and who live off the land and thus alienate the very people they came to help or to conquer.